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Writing and Delivering A Speech

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10 Tips for More

Effective Speech
Writing
1. Start as you mean to go on . .
. strongly!

Ditch the thank you’s and greetings, and jump


right in with:
•a story – use your personal experience to
interest the listener
•a statistic to show why your speech is
important, e.g. how much money is involved,
how many thousands of people are affected etc.
•a question or some kind of interaction with the
audience
So what makes this opening
memorable?
In the year two-thousand and twelve, there was a total of eleven
school shootings in the United States. Forty-one people lost their
lives as a result of these attacks. Whilst I’m sure that all of you
understand that the loss of these forty-one people is terrible, I’d
imagine that some of you are thinking that forty-one isn’t that
huge a number. And that’s okay, it’s understandable, forty-one is
not a gigantic, breath-taking statistic. But I want you all to
humour me for few minutes and try and do as I instruct you. Try
to consider these forty-one people, not as a statistic, but as forty-
one individuals. Forty-one real people with real lives. They were
no different from you or me. They had routines and personalities.
They had aspirations and expectations. They had plans and
dreams. And one of the most precious things they all had is a
future, the possibility and potential to achieve anything.
2. Make your ending
memorable!

Link your conclusion back


to your introduction and
reinforce your key
message

So, in
conclusion, I
ask
again . . .
How is this conclusion linked to
the introduction?
And people say that it is a violation of their freedom, that
the Government shouldn’t be controlling what they are
allowed to own. To those people, I would like to ask how
free the forty-one school shooting victims are. Freedom is
a dangerous thing, and can often be used to disguise
carelessness. To be able to be a free and great nation, I
urge the United States of America to enforce stricter gun
control, because we have the power to stop thousands of
unnecessary deaths, and we therefore have a duty to.
3. Link your ideas

Make sure that your ideas are well organised


using developed and linked points . . .
What are each of these paragraphs
about? How are the paragraphs
linked?
Some people say that they carry guns to stay safe and to
protect themselves. This is one of the more sensible
arguments and I respect it. However, if we allow every to have
and use firearms as they please, then how safe would you
feel? We must crack down on guns everywhere, in all
scenarios if we are to truly achieve safety regarding guns.

Some people say that banning guns will not have an effect
on gun ownership; it will simply become a large black market
issue, like illegal drugs. Imagine if we legalised all drugs.
Imagine the disaster and chaos that would ensue.
4. Have a clear focus

Don’t try to make too many points during your


speech. Attempting to cover too much ground in
a short time will confuse your audience.
In fact all
forms of
Okay, so weapons are
guns are bad bad Knives are bad too,
especially if used
by someone on
I’m not very fond drugs
of alcohol either So, in
because it’s linked conclusion,
to crime what was I
talking about?
5. Be conversational
Try to create a conversational tone to interest your listener:
•use contractions (I’ll, we’ll, can’t, he’s, we’re, it’s),
•‘but’ rather than however,
•‘so’ rather than therefore etc.

But don’t be too informal!


6. Use stories

Include stories (anecdotes) where appropriate.

Personal stories are often


the best if they are
relevant to what you are
speaking about, so it’s a
good idea to write down
the interesting stories you
hear or experience.
7. Use quotations
Including a few quotations from authorities and
experts gives support to your message. By
adding quotations you show that other people
agree with your idea.
“I don’t believe
people should to
be able to own
guns.”
- Barack Obama
8. Use facts etc. but . . .

Roughly 16,272 murders were committed in the don’t


United States during 2008. Of these, about 10,886 or over-d
67% were committed with firearms. And a 1993 o
nationwide survey of 4,977 households found that i t!
over the previous five years, at least 0.5% of
households had members who had used a gun for
defense during a situation in which they thought
someone "almost certainly would have been killed" if
they "had not used a gun for protection." Applied to
the U.S. population, this amounts to 162,000 such
incidents per year. This figure excludes all "military
service, police work, or work as a security guard."
9. Use language to interest your
listener

For example, you could use:


•humour or irony
•rhetorical questions
•pattern of three
•repetition
•an occasional very short sentence
for impact.
What language features have
been used here?
Some people are saying we should be free to own guns.
But what sort of ‘freedom’ enables a psychopath to gun
down the children of Sandy Hook? Or the students of
Oakland? Or the cinema goers of Aurora? And if we
allow the metally unstable to have a gun, who is really
responsible when someone ends up shot? We are. So,
surely, now it’s time to act. Now is the time to run
background checks on gun owners, tighten our archaic
gun laws now, and ensure that we all citizens have the
freedom to go about their daily lives.
10. Use your time!

You have a week and a half to prepare your


speeches, so use it. Draft and redraft your
speech, practise, practise, practise.
Top Tips for delivering your
speech
• Try to relax. Successful public speaking is all about
passion, emotion and commitment. If you're
excited, then your audience will be, too."
• Practice your speech beforehand. Practise in the
shower and run the speech in your head rather
than practising in front of a mirror, which is
distracting. Try to replace deadening filler words
like "um," "so" and "like" with silence.
• Aim for a natural delivery.
• Most important, try to enjoy the experience.

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